02898nam 22005175 450 991043325010332120231019211133.09781644693254164469325910.1515/9781644693254(CKB)4100000011288982(DE-B1597)550497(DE-B1597)9781644693254(OCoLC)1158129168(ScCtBLL)6e2c9e17-77cf-41eb-9cc5-01e6167376bf(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33283(oapen)doab33283(EXLCZ)99410000001128898220200526h20202011 fg engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAlfred Dreyfus Man, Milieu, Mentality and Midrash /Norman SimmsAcademic Studies Press2008Boston, MA :Academic Studies Press,[2020]©20111 online resource (336 p.)Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History9781618112934 1618112937 Frontmatter --Table of Contents --Prologue --Chapter One: Introduction --Chapter Two: Bodies of Evidence --Chapter Three: The Phantasmagoria of a Secular Midrash --Epilogue --Bibliography --IndexThis groundbreaking book focuses on Alfred Dreyfus the man, with emphasis placed on his own writings, including his recently published prison workbooks and his letters to his wife Lucie. Through close reading of these documents, a much more sensitive, intellectual, and Jewish man is revealed than was previously suspected. He and Lucie, through their family connections and mutual loyalty, were interested in and supported the artistic, scientific, philosophical and historical movements that formed their Parisian milieu. But as an Alsatian Jew, Alfred was also critical of many aspects of technological and ideological developments, making his mentality one of skepticism as well as idealism. Norman Simms addresses the way Dreyfus perceived the world, challenged many of its assumptions and contextualized it in the style of a rabbinical midrash, a process that created what Alfred called a “phantasmagoria” of the Affair that bears his name, and also interprets the man, his milieu and his mentality in the style of a midrash, a creative, transformative reading.HISTORY / Europe / WesternbisacshHistoryJewishHISTORY / Europe / Western.Simms Normanauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut928726Knowledge Unlatchedfndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910433250103321Alfred Dreyfus2219646UNINA